@pixplz @dalias The reason literary analysis is mostly done on classic literature is because the authors are too dead to say, "I didn't intend anything of the sort. I wrote this for my grocery money and based the main character on people I knew when I was younger."
All of my literature assignments--from book reports to literary analysis--sucked the joy out of reading the source material. I thought they were bullshit then, and never collected any evidence that would revise that opinion.